Adapting and/or adopting non-authentic and genuine materials for an ERP context, towards a stereotype-free thinking English
Abstract
Language teachers have understood that to enliven the classroom they needed to teach realism ; thus they needed real-life materials.
This is indeed what we want to teach our learners : how to do meaningful things inside and outside the classroom setting.
In the article, I discuss the different materials as non-authentic and how and when the practitioner has to use them so as to bring excitement and enjoyment in his class, to teach the student to understant the language he is learning, and to comprehend how native speakers construct the language they speak. The student has to understand, for example, funny remarks, not because he has been told that they are funny but that he thinks that they are so.
Likewise, with such materials, and with the teacher’s expertise, our learners will move straightforwardly from one restricted context of communication to a broader and more natural one.
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